BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Peace bloggers. We have an official name, now. Of course, can’t have a term without a definition, and my definition of a peace blogger is anyone who believes, as Hodja did, that everyone in the Middle East conflict is right. And we believe this because we know that no one in the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I found an excellent essay, Vietnam War Retrospective that discusses photojournalism’s effects on the Vietnam protest movement. Among some of the events recalled by the author, Frank Cossa, is the following: We saw a callow, fair young man slip a flower into the rifle barrel of a helmeted MP standing guard in […]
Shattered Webs Points meet and swirl in an eddy of communication and reach, growing into a circle so large that light must surely shine from its depths… …until the darkness of the surround intrudes and the circle spins more slowly …and falters …and breaks Splintering into bits and pieces of shattered web, gossamer fine, edges […]
A weblogger’s nightmare: I am looking at a weblog page with a Google box to the right and a NY Times box to the left and several buttons with coffee mugs all over them that generate OPML, RSS, and various other assorted and sundry XML flavors. Within the page there is this outline with links […]
I just can’t see any usefulness of the Google API for weblogging. So you can use it for lookups. To lookup what? We’ve all seem how useful Google lookups are. I still get hits for add morpheus node. And this buys me…what? Weblogs aren’t “resources”. People use Google to find “resources”. Google lookups work extremely […]